EP0958073B1 - Procede et installation de coulee continue des metaux - Google Patents
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- EP0958073B1 EP0958073B1 EP97919471A EP97919471A EP0958073B1 EP 0958073 B1 EP0958073 B1 EP 0958073B1 EP 97919471 A EP97919471 A EP 97919471A EP 97919471 A EP97919471 A EP 97919471A EP 0958073 B1 EP0958073 B1 EP 0958073B1
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
- B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
- B22D11/00—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths
- B22D11/04—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths into open-ended moulds
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
- B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
- B22D11/00—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths
- B22D11/04—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths into open-ended moulds
- B22D11/041—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths into open-ended moulds for vertical casting
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
- B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
- B22D11/00—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths
- B22D11/04—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths into open-ended moulds
- B22D11/0401—Moulds provided with a feed head
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- the present invention relates to continuous casting metals, especially steel.
- the continuous casting operation consists schematically as we know, to pour a metal into fusion in an ingot mold, essentially constituted a bottomless tubular element defining a passage for cast metal, but whose walls, in copper or more generally made of copper alloy, are energetically cooled by circulation of water, and which we also continuously extract a product already solidified externally over a few centimeters thick. Solidification then progresses towards the product axis and ends during the descent of this downstream of the mold in the so-called zone of "secondary cooling" due to ramps water sprinkler. The product obtained, bloom, billet or slab, is then cut to length, then laminated before shipping to customers or processing on site, bars, wires, profiles, plates, sheets, etc.
- the molten metal brought in the mold by a nozzle, forms a film solid when it comes into contact with the walls cooled from the mold.
- This film is driven down during the extraction of the product, by jerky movements to the rhythm of the oscillations vertical of the mold, and simultaneously its thickness increases due to continued extraction of heat produced by the walls of the mold.
- the ring contraction is all the more important that the heat extraction is strong and that cast metal has a natural tendency to contract during cooling, for example by changing solid phase at the end of solidification, as is the case especially for steel grades with 0.1% carbon or AISI 304 stainless steel.
- This perimeter contraction tends to cause a separation of the solidified skin from the wall of the mold, and therefore a decrease in the exchange thermal because the contact of said skin with cold walls is degraded.
- This separation is generally uneven depending on the perimeter of the skin solidified, which is a source of surface defects in the product finally obtained.
- a technique particular not yet industrialized known as name of continuous casting in vertical load, consists of place above the cooled metal walls of the ingot mold an extension of a refractory material thermally insulating, and to be maintained during casting the free surface of the metal bath at the level of the said enhances (French patent n ° 2000365). So the metal in does not solidify on contact with the riser, the first solidified skin just starting to form from the upper edges of the metal wall cooled.
- an improvement consists in injecting in the mold, at the level of the said enhancer and at less fair at the interface between it and the walls cooled metal, an inert gas under pressure.
- This gas injection carried out by a thin slit annular formed between said walls and the extension, forms jets perpendicular to the walls and directed towards the liquid metal, which shear possible solidified skins which are formed on contact with the refractory extension, so as to ensure a start of effective solidification precisely at the edge top of the cooled walls.
- the object of the present invention is to resolve these problems and particularly aims to allow, in the continuous casting technique with vertical load, a control and easy adaptation of conditions heat flow extraction, especially in the area where solidification begins.
- the object of the invention is a continuous metal casting process whereby uses an ingot mold with metal walls energetically cooled topped by an extension thermally insulating material, it is maintained, during casting, the free surface of the molten metal contained in the mold at the level of the so-called enhancer, and we injects into the mold, around its entire periphery, a gas under pressure, at the level of said riser and at least at the interface between it and the cooled walls.
- this process is characterized in that the said injected gas is a gas or gas mixture having a adjustable thermal expansion capacity, and in that regulates the so-called front thermal expansion capacity injection of gas into the mold, depending on the composition of the cast metal alloy and casting conditions, to adapt to this composition and these conditions the density of the heat flux extracted from the says metal alloy in the area where it starts to get solidify to a specific predetermined value of the cast alloy,
- the method according to the invention thus offers a possibility of easily adapting as required the heat flux density extracted from metal cast in level where solidified skin is formed, especially depending on the composition of said metal, especially the nuance in the case of steel casting.
- the inventors have in fact observed, during casting tests carried out by injecting an inert gas, such as argon or helium, at the interface between the riser and the cooled metal walls, that the flux density extract was strongly influenced by the thermal expansion capacity of the gas.
- an inert gas such as argon or helium
- the flux density extracted over the first 40 millimeters from the upper edge of the metal walls was around 5 MW / m 2 when the temperature of the injected argon was around 500 ° C, and was only 4.2 or even 3.2 MW / m 2 when the temperature of the argon injected was around 100 ° C.
- the temperature of the injected gas is adjustable between 50 and 600 ° C., this range of adjustment making it possible to fix the temperature of the gas at a predetermined value such that the density of extracted heat flux is between 2 , 5 and 6 MW / m 2 , thus providing wide possibilities of adaptation depending on the composition of the cast metal alloy and the various other casting parameters.
- the gas temperature is set by mixing in a volumetric ratio determined gas from a hot spring to substantially constant temperature, for example at 700 ° C with gas from a cold source also at substantially constant temperature, for example at 20 ° C.
- the total flow rate of gas injected is the sum of the flow rates of gases from the two sources respectively. The report between these flows makes it possible to vary the temperature of the injected gas, while maintaining flow total substantially constant. Practically, taking inevitable heat losses, and with the temperatures of the two sources mentioned above, we may vary the temperature of the gas injected between 50 and 600 ° C.
- the mixing of gases is carried out in a mixing chamber located in the walls of the ingot mold and / or in the riser, the gas temperature injected being adjusted by adjusting the gas flow rates from hot and cold springs, respectively and introduced into said room.
- the gas injected is a mixture of at least two gases constituting the mixture, by example of argon and helium, which we adjust thermal expansion capacity by adjusting the proportions relative of said constituent gases.
- the constituent gases of the mixture have different physical properties, especially different densities, to adjust, depending on their relative proportions, the density of the mixture.
- different physical properties of gases injected such as thermal diffusivity and above all density, influence, for the same difference between the temperature of the injected gas and that of the molten steel, the expansion of said gas bubbles.
- the invention also relates to an installation for continuous casting of metals comprising an ingot mold of which the walls are formed by metal walls cooled topped by a material extension thermally insulating, and injection ports opening into the ingot mold to inject into the ingot mold gas under pressure in the form of jets distributed around the periphery of the mold at the level of the enhances and at least at the interface between said enhancement and the metal wall, characterized in that it includes means for supplying said gas, connected to said orifices, allowing to adjust the capacity thermal expansion of the injected gas.
- Said means of gas supply can include means for adjusting the gas temperature injected, or means for adjusting the proportion relative of at least two gases constituting a mixture gaseous forming the injected gas.
- the installation of casting has two gas sources connected to a chamber mixing, itself connected to said orifices, and means for adjusting the gas flow rates from respectively said sources and introduced into the mixing chamber.
- the mixing chamber is located outside the mold and connected to a channel distribution arranged in the wall of the mold.
- the mixing chamber is located in the wall of the mold.
- the mixing chamber can in particular be constituted by a first chamber of distribution fitted in the riser and connected to the source of hot gases and a second distribution in the metal walls and connected to the cold source.
- the mix or the distribution channel can also be fully fitted in the metal walls cooled.
- the walls of these can be coated with a material thermally insulating.
- the walls 1 of the mold shown in Figure 1 consist of metal walls 2, copper or copper alloy, topped with a 3 in thermally insulating refractory material.
- the walls metallic 2 are energetically cooled by a internal circulation of water in channels 4, shown schematically in the figure.
- Extension 3 is consisting of an upper part 5, with a height of 200 mm for example, in a very insulating material and of a lower part 6 of refractory material possibly less insulating but having a better mechanical resistance, for example the material known as SiAlON, and having for example a thickness of 20 mm.
- the walls 1 of the ingot mold define a passage for the cast product, in which the steel fusion 7 is conventionally brought by a nozzle 8 comprising vents 9 located at the height of said extension 3.
- the ingot mold also has holes gas injection, opening to the inner surface walls 1, at the interface between the extension 3 and the metal wall 2, preferably constituted by a continuous slit around the edge of the mold, ensuring well a regular injection of gas on everything periphery.
- This narrow slot 10 has a height of a few tenths of a millimeter, for example 0.2 mm, determined by a spacer 11 inserted between the lower part 6 of the extension and the metal wall 2, on the side outside the walls. Slot 10 opens to the surface inside the walls of the mold, all over around it.
- a distribution channel 12 is arranged in the metal wall 2, in the form of a groove made on the upper face of said metal wall and communicating with the slot 10 around the entire periphery of the mold.
- the casting installation also includes a hot source 13 of inert gas, for example argon, heated to a temperature of about 700 ° C by means of heating known per se, and a cold source 14 of the same gas, maintained at room temperature, for example 20 ° C.
- a hot source 13 of inert gas for example argon
- a cold source 14 of the same gas maintained at room temperature, for example 20 ° C.
- the pressurized gas from of the mixing chamber 17 is distributed in the channel 12 and is injected into the mold through the slot 10.
- the temperature of the gas thus injected can be adjusted at means of valves 15 and 16 by acting on the ratio of gas flow rates from each source, respectively.
- the distribution channel 12 could also be made in refractory riser 3, which presents the advantage of limiting the heat losses of the gas from the made of the high temperature, of the order of 800 ° C, of the so-called enhancement. It is however easier to carry out the machining of the distribution channel in the wall metallic 2, and in this case, to limit the cooling of the gas in contact with the metal of the wall, whose temperature is only around 100 ° C, the walls of the said canal may be coated with a insulating material, such as zirconia or nitride boron.
- a second groove 22 is made in the lower part 6 of the extension, opposite the groove 12 and also in communication with the slot 10.
- the hot source 13 of gas is connected via valve 15 directly to this groove 22, and the cold source 14 is connected via the valve 16 to the groove 12.
- the volume defined by these two grooves constitutes both a distribution chamber and a mixing chamber located entirely in the wall 1 of the mold.
- the invention is not limited to variants described above only by way of example, and in the temperature of the gas injected may be regulated by means other than the mixture of hot gases and cold indicated above.
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Description
- la figure 1 est une représentation schématique d'une première variante, montrant la partie'supérieure de la lingotière en coupe longitudinale partielle,
- la figure 2 illustre une deuxième variante de réalisation.
Claims (17)
- Procédé de coulée continue des métaux selon lequel on utilise une lingotière comportant des parois métalliques (2) énergiquement refroidies surmontées d'une rehausse (3) en matériau thermiquement isolant, on maintient, au cours de la coulée, la surface libre du métal en fusion (7) contenu dans la lingotière au niveau de la dite rehausse, et on injecte dans la lingotière, sur tout son pourtour, un gaz sous pression, au niveau de la dite rehausse et au moins à l'interface entre celle-ci et les parois refroidies, caractérisé en ce que le dit gaz injecté est un gaz ou mélange gazeux ayant une capacité d'expansion thermique ajustable, et en ce qu'on règle la dite capacité d'expansion thermique avant l'injection du gaz dans la lingotière, en fonction de la composition de l'alliage métallique coulé et des conditions de coulée, pour adapter à cette composition et ces conditions la densité du flux thermique extrait du dit alliage métallique dans la zone où il commence à se solidifier à une valeur prédéterminée spécifique de l'alliage coulé.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la capaoité d'expansion thermique du gaz est déterminée de manière que la densité de flux thermique extrait soit comprise entre 2,5 et 6 MW/m2.
- Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que, pour ajuster la capacité d'expansion thermique du gaz injecté, on règle la température du dit gaz.
- Procédé selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que la température du gaz injecté est réglable entre 50 et 600°.
- Procédé selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que le gaz est un gaz inerte, tel que de l'argon.
- Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que le gaz injecté est un mélange d'au moins deux gaz constitutifs du mélange, dont on ajuste la capacité d'expansion thermique en réglant les proportions relatives des dits gaz constitutifs.
- Procédé selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que le gaz injecté est un mélange d'argon et d'hélium.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la capacité d'expansion thermique du gaz injecté est réglée en mélangeant dans un rapport volumétrique déterminé des gaz provenant de deux sources (13, 14).
- Procédé selon la revendication 8 en combinaison avec la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que le mélange de gaz est effectué dans une chambre de mélange (12, 22) située dans les parois (1) de la lingotière et/ou dans la rehausse (3), la température du gaz injecté étant ajustée en réglant les débits des gaz provenant respectivement d'une source chaude (13) à température sensiblement constante et d'une source froide (14) également à température sensiblement constante.
- Installation de coulée continue des métaux comportant une lingotière dont les parois (1) sont formées par des parois métalliques refroidies (2) surmontées par une rehausse (3) en matériau thermiquement isolant et des orifices d'injection (10) débouchant dans la lingotière pour injecter dans la lingotière un gaz sous pression sous forme de jets répartis sur le pourtour de la lingotière au niveau de la rehausse et au moins à l'interface entre la dite rehausse et la paroi métallique, caractérisée en ce qu'elle comprend des moyens (13 à 17) de fourniture du dit gaz, reliés aux dits orifices, et des moyens de réglage de la capacité d'expansion thermique du gaz injecté dans la lingotière.
- Installation selon la revendication 10, caractérisée en ce que les dits moyens de réglage comportent des moyens de réglage de la température du gaz injecté.
- Installation selon la revendication 11, caractérisée en ce que les dits moyens de réglage comportent des moyens de réglage de la proportion relative d'au moins deux gaz constitutifs d'un mélange gazeux formant le gaz injecté.
- Installation selon la revendication 10, caractérisée en ce que les dits moyens de fourniture de gaz comportent deux sources (13 et 14) de gaz reliées à une chambre de mélange (17; 12,22), elle même reliée aux dits orifices, et des moyens (15,16) de réglage des débits de gaz provenant respectivement des dites sources et introduits dans la chambre de mélange.
- Installation selon la revendication 13, caractérisée en ce que la chambre de mélange (17) est située à l'extérieur de lingotière et reliée à un canal de répartition (12) aménagé dans la paroi (1) de la lingotière.
- Installation selon la revendication 13, caractérisée en ce que la chambre de mélange (12,22) est située dans la paroi (1) de la lingotière.
- Installation selon la revendication 15 en combinaison avec la revendication 11, caractérisée en ce que la chambre de mélange est constituée par une première chambre de répartition (22) aménagée dans la rehausse (3) et reliée à une source (13) de gaz chaud et une deuxième chambre de répartition (12) aménagée dans les parois métalliques (2) et reliée à une source froide (14).
- Installation selon la revendication 15, caractérisée en ce que les parois de la dite chambre de mélange (12) sont revêtues d'un matériau thermiquement isolant.
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FR9604303A FR2747060B1 (fr) | 1996-04-05 | 1996-04-05 | Procede de coulee continue des metaux et installation de coulee pour sa mise en oeuvre |
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PCT/FR1997/000596 WO1997037795A1 (fr) | 1996-04-05 | 1997-04-03 | Procede et installation de coulee continue des metaux |
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JP (1) | JP2000508244A (fr) |
KR (1) | KR100449675B1 (fr) |
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BR (1) | BR9709160A (fr) |
CA (1) | CA2251007C (fr) |
DE (1) | DE69714078T2 (fr) |
ES (1) | ES2176732T3 (fr) |
FR (1) | FR2747060B1 (fr) |
PT (1) | PT958073E (fr) |
WO (1) | WO1997037795A1 (fr) |
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BE1012626A3 (fr) * | 1999-04-23 | 2001-01-09 | Ct De Rech S Metallurg Asbl Ve | Dispositif pour fabriquer des produits plats par la coulee continue en charge verticale d'un metal en fusion. |
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CA2251007A1 (fr) | 1997-10-16 |
FR2747060A1 (fr) | 1997-10-10 |
CA2251007C (fr) | 2004-09-14 |
DE69714078T2 (de) | 2003-03-06 |
BR9709160A (pt) | 2000-05-09 |
WO1997037795A1 (fr) | 1997-10-16 |
AU2393097A (en) | 1997-10-29 |
EP0958073A1 (fr) | 1999-11-24 |
ES2176732T3 (es) | 2002-12-01 |
ATE220581T1 (de) | 2002-08-15 |
DE69714078D1 (de) | 2002-08-22 |
PT958073E (pt) | 2002-10-31 |
US6260605B1 (en) | 2001-07-17 |
KR100449675B1 (ko) | 2005-01-15 |
JP2000508244A (ja) | 2000-07-04 |
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